praise the One who frees the prisoners, turning blindness
into sight.
Praise the One who preached the Gospel, healing every
dread disease,
calming storms, and feeding thousands with the very Bread
of peace.
---Rusty Edwards, 1987
Under cover of darkness. They kept me in the dark about
their true intentions. Mysterious as the dark side of the moon. Are you afraid
of the dark? …these are a few of the things that come to mind when I think of
darkness. How about you? Are there
sayings, song lyrics, lines of poetry that stay with you when you think of
darkness?
I’ll be adding the first line of this hymn to my darkness
‘quotable quotes’, because it is fab.u. lous. The image of ‘breaking the darkness’ immediately evokes daybreak and the break of dawn (and
though I haven’t witnessed overly many daybreaks, I hear sunrise is glorious!). I can close my eyes and picture the dark, shattered
by the inexorable, irresistible force of light, uncovering, revealing,
illuminating. I imagine squinting against the sudden brightness, my skin
soaking in the growing warmth.
And I can only begin to grasp what freedom there would be in
light, if I had felt bound till the breaking by an endless night of dark. What
that liberation must feel like, when the first hint of light glows on the
horizon. It would be enough to send me to my knees in praise.
It was Anne Frank who said, “Look at how a single candle
can both defy and define the darkness.”
Break the darkness, liberating Light, and not just for
me…
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